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The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
— Francis Atterbury
Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.
— Peter Pronovost
National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order.
— Adolf Hitler
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
— Samuel Pepys
What we call absurd is our ignorance. The Winners, 1960
— Julio Cortazar
Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
— Benjamin Franklin
I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.
— Jennifer Saunders
Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.
— Steven Wright
How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.
— Albert Camus
We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.
— Grant Morrison
Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
— Nancy Willard
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
— Fran Lebowitz
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.
— Bob Geldof
I have nothing but respect for you and not much of that. — Groucho Marx
I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.
— Hayden Panettiere
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.
— Lynn Austin
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?
— Steven Wright
Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
— Roberto Bolano
But the internet, with its army of anonymous hatemongers, still tried to keep the absurd story alive.
— Barkha Dutt
There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.
— Elena Ferrante
There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'
— William Cosmo Monkhouse
It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'
— David Harsanyi
2 minutes in heaven is better than 1 minute in heaven.
— Flight Of The Conchords
Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.
— Bertrand Russell
The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
— L. Frank Baum
Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.
— Jacques Vallee
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
— Spike Milligan
If Mickey Mouse could fly, he'd be Donald Duck.
— Janet Evanovich
I decided long ago that life's absurd. If you don't develop a sense of humor, it will drive you mad.
— James Maxey
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
— Robert Browning
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
— Frank Zappa
It is absurd to look for perfection.
— Camille Pissarro
Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void
— Dean Cavanagh
The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.
— Marya Hornbacher
It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside down.
— Lauren Oliver
When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.
— T. Colin Campbell
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
— George Berkeley
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
— Thomas Paine
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
— Thomas Nagel
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
— H.L. Mencken
Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.
— Frank Lautenberg
The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
— Albert Camus
I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
— Claire Forlani
Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.
— Eric Andre
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,.
— Slobodan Milosevic
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
— Steven Wright
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
— Nathan Fielder
Someday, god knows when, I will stop this absurd, self-pitying, idle, futile despair, and I will begin to think again.
— Sylvia Plath
And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.
— Thomas Huxley
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
— Albert Camus
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
— Clarence Darrow
Religion of the masses is absurd. But so is their science!
— Raheel Farooq
People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature
— Paulo Coelho
